By iirchen on Skatehive
People built fortresses not for beauty, but, of course, to protect their settlements from enemy attacks. The Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia, is no exception: it was built to protect the "newborn" city from the Swedes. However, the fortress has never had a chance to participate in battles: none of the enemies of Russia managed to get so far to the heart of the city. Instead, for several decades the fortress played a little-respected role of a prison for political prisoners. And this was long before the Soviet times. For example, in the middle of the 19th century, the famous Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky spent eight months in the Peter and Paul prison. However, the conversation will not be about the prison, but about the guns, which, of course, were in the fortress. Moreover, they are here now, and they have work every day without days off) But there are also guns that have already "retired". It will be just about them, and a little about the October Revolution of 1